Mengzhou Old Mosque (Bai Mosque)

📜 About & history

Mengzhou Old Mosque, in the southern part of Xisangpo Village, Mengzhou, was founded in 1636 (Chongde era) as the village's first mosque and is also called the Bai Mosque because most of its congregation bear the surname Bai. After its buildings collapsed in 1874, Imam Bai Jinlong rebuilt it in brick and timber in 1900, with a 20-metre niche hall. Occupied and damaged during the Cultural Revolution, it was gradually rebuilt from 1983, and by 1994 had 42 rooms on a 5,000-square-metre site.

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